How to Use warbler in a Sentence

warbler

noun
  • This time, the warbler saw the hawk and not the other way around.
    — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Dapper gray warbler with red face, black head-band and white rump.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • So many warblers, so little time.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Many insect eaters like warblers have already flown the coop.
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Sep. 2019
  • How much longer Townsend will be able to claim his warbler, though, is unclear.
    — Kate Sayers, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • Though small at just about half a mile long, the beach is home to dunes and colorful birds like the reed warbler.
    — Jahnavi Bhatt, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2024
  • This is the prime time to find migrating fall warblers, vireos, and kinglets.
    — courant.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • At such times, take the warbler’s advice and don’t venture out on the water.
    — Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes a warbler’s flitting would cause a shower of white petals.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 24 May 2018
  • The winsome warbler Steve Gunn lives out of a suitcase for much of the year.
    — Lee Ranaldo, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • And warblers will make entrees of waxy blue berries hanging from feathery junipers.
    — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
  • More than 200 species have been spotted here — look for warblers, vireos and hawks.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Species include many types of warblers, the western tanager and the snow bunting.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Weeks said, adding that warblers were among the types of birds that were exhibiting the most dramatic changes.
    — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Kirtland’s warblers lay eggs in nests built on the ground under the low-hanging branches of jack pine trees.
    — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2019
  • The warbler lay on its back for a couple of seconds before sensing its freedom.
    — Bruce M. Beehler, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
  • In one image, the cuckoos can be seen with its jaws wide open coming closer to the small birds, a bunting and a warbler.
    — Fox News, 24 June 2020
  • For example, cerulean warblers, bright blue songbirds, have declined steeply over time.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Flocks of warblers, sparrows and other birds sometimes seem to appear out of nowhere before a storm.
    — Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • No wind, So that stirring in the cottonwood Must be a warbler.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Birds that migrate at night, like sparrows and warblers, rely on the stars to navigate.
    — Todd Richmond, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Kentucky warblers and other songbirds are known to nest in clumps of cinnamon fern.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There are many online guides and apps, as well as books, to learn to identify birds, including warblers.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The same may be true for pine warblers, Eastern bluebirds, brown thrashers and some others.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Davie Park filled in some gaps in our list with such goodies as a brown creeper, pine warbler and hairy woodpecker.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The dashboard notes that numerous species of warblers are most likely to be migrating at this time.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The distinctive trilling of bush warblers and the drone of cicadas are deployed in films as aural markers of place and time.
    — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • On warblers and mitochondria At first glance, the standard ways of defining a species seem to work well.
    — Elay Shech, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • Scientists also will keep an eye on the Bahamas, where the warblers spend winters.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Our research with warblers demonstrates how evolution can shuffle genes across the thin lines between species.
    — David Toews, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025

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